On Saturday I went to the drugstore to buy birthday cards. Decided to stock up so spent about 15 minutes standing picking out cards and another 5 waiting in line to buy them. Several hours later the main muscles in my legs went into spasm and contracted. Pain. Many of you know that this is the problem that I have had for years and thus my mobility has been greatly affected. My legs were in pain on Sunday, even though my husband worked on the trigger points with his elbow. So on Monday, I was in pain when I showed up to see my Egoscue trainer, Oscar. Through the process of elimination, having me do E-cises (These are not exercises, which always cause me increased pain.) to see which ones reduced the tightness and pain, he determined that my hip flexors weren't engaging. Since I was standing at the store and my hip flexors weren't doing their job, the other leg muscles had to help out and became overtaxed. Thus, went into spasm and contracted. Previously, I had been told that all my leg muscles were just weak and that I had hypermobile joints, so I was sent to PT to strengthen. That only caused increased pain and sent me into decline for months. I was feeling hoplessly stuck in chronic myofascial pain. But Oscar had a plan and proceeded to give me E-cises for the hip flexors as well as continuing the ones to keep my pelvis stabalized. These are to be done daily. I left in in a lot less pain and woke up today with just a little tightness in my hamstrings, which my Myotherapist worked out. Yesterday's session with Oscar has given me hope that with his expertise in choosing the E-cises, which address my individual structural and muscular imbalances that I can regain my mobility. Since I also have myofascial pain in my back and recently my triceps, this is going to be a long process, but I am hopeful. As usual, time will tell.